Launching our first OpenAI Certifications courses

AI 将为比历史上任何一项技术带来更多机会——帮助企业提升运营效率，使人们把想法变为现实，并创造新的就业类型。每周已有超过 8 亿人使用 ChatGPT 来提升技能、寻找工作并解决现实问题。 AI 正被越来越多的工作场所采纳，研究显示掌握 AI 技能的从业者收入大约比没有这些技能的人高出约 50%。我们也清楚 AI 会带来冲击，许多人因此不确定哪些技能最重要，也不知道从何入手。虽然 OpenAI 无法消除所有冲击，但我们可以帮助全球的人做好准备，顺利应对变化。

去年九月，我们提出了通过新的 OpenAI Certifications 和 OpenAI Jobs Platform 扩大经济机会的愿景。现在，我们迈出下一步，推出两门提供实用 AI 技能的新课程：将在 ChatGPT 内通过与一批领先雇主和公共服务合作伙伴开展的试点项目上线的 AI Foundations，以及今天起在 Coursera 可供学习的 ChatGPT Foundations for Teachers。

AI Foundations 着重为职场人士提供动手、面向现实工作的训练，教会他们如何使用当下的 AI 工具；面向教师的课程则帮助教育工作者建立 AI 专长并把它应用到课堂教学中。借助这两门课程的推出，我们正加速推进在 2030 年前为 1000 万美国人提供认证的目标。

AI 是一种强大的生产力工具，能让人们做得更多、学得更快，并打开新的工作机会。但这些收益只有在人人具备使用技术的技能，并且雇主能找到会应用这些技术的员工时才会实现。我们的目标就是促成这种对接。

我们从 AI Foundations 课程入手：这门课程旨在帮助学习者掌握跨岗位、跨行业的核心实用 AI 技能。首次将完整学习体验直接嵌入到 ChatGPT 中，学习者可以在同一环境里练习真实任务、获得上下文中的反馈并对自己的作业进行反思。 ChatGPT 在此既是导师、也是练习场和反馈回路。

完成 AI Foundations 后，学习者将获得一个证明他们具备可上岗 AI 技能的徽章。再通过进阶课程和一个实操项目，他们可逐步取得完整的 OpenAI Certification，这是一项更广泛、更全面的凭证，能够证明他们在真实工作场景中的能力，帮助他们在现有岗位上成长或转入新岗位。

AI Foundations 将通过与一系列领先企业和公共部门伙伴开展的试点项目启动，合作方包括 Walmart、 John Deere、 Lowe’s、 Boston Consulting Group、 Russell Reynolds Associates、 Upwork、 Elevance Health、 Accenture、 the Office of the Governor of Delaware 和 Choose New Jersey。

Coursera、 ETS 与 Credly by Pearson 将协助确保我们的课程与认证在学习设计、心理测量学严谨性以及现实影响力方面达到高标准，使学习者能够获得有价值且可迁移的技能证明。在接下来的几个月里，我们将与首批合作伙伴一起总结哪些做法有效、哪些需要改进，然后扩大课程覆盖面，让更多人有机会发展并向潜在雇主展示他们的新 AI 技能。

随着越来越多年轻人进入一个被 AI 日益塑造的职场，我们将为 ChatGPT Lab 的大学生提供 AI Foundations 的优先访问。同时，我们正在与 Arizona State University 及 California State University 系统合作试点一门新课，为师生和教职工创造路径，帮助学生打磨 AI 能力并在求职时向雇主展示这些技能。

与此同时，我们还推出了面向教师的 ChatGPT Foundations for Teachers 课程。调查显示，约六成教师已经在使用某种 AI 工具，许多人借助它节省时间、个性化备课和课堂材料，并能更好地支持学生。教师在帮助学生和家庭有效、自信且负责任地使用 AI 工具方面也扮演着核心角色。

这门专为 K-12 教师设计的新课介绍了 ChatGPT 的基本工作原理、如何驾驭与个性化该工具，以及如何把它应用到课堂教学和行政事务中。课程最初将在 Coursera 上提供，我们正努力于 2026 年初将这一体验直接带入 ChatGPT 与 ChatGPT for Teachers，打造同样的动手实操学习环境。更多针对教师的认证也将随之推出。

ChatGPT Foundations for Teachers 是我们帮助教育者使用 AI、充分发挥其潜力努力的一部分。它建立在我们为教育者提供免费定制版 ChatGPT 的 ChatGPT for Teachers 项目基础上，也与 American Federation of Teachers 的合作相辅相成，旨在为 400,000 名 K-12 教师提供实用的 AI 技能培训，并扩展到如 study mode 等满足学术需求的新工具。我们也坚信 AI 正在重塑几乎每一个行业，教师将在帮助学生学会使用这项技术中发挥关键作用。

这两项计划将学习、认证与真实的经济机会串联成一条清晰的路径，为即将推出的 OpenAI Jobs Platform 打下基础。我们很高兴与 Indeed 继续合作，确保这些努力能够扩大机会面向所有人。同时我们也与 Upwork 建立新伙伴关系，后者将在更广泛的培训项目中发挥重要作用，帮助企业更容易地雇佣具备特定 AI 技能的人才，并确保技术专长能为全球数百万人的经济前景带来实实在在的可能性。

我们在快速建设、与合作伙伴一边学习一边谨慎扩展——而这仅仅是开始。

AI will unlock more opportunities for more people than any technology in history—helping companies run more efficiently, empowering people to turn ideas into reality, and creating new kinds of jobs. More than 800 million people already use ChatGPT each week to build skills, find work, and solve real-world problems. AI is being incorporated into more workplaces⁠, and research⁠ shows workers with AI skills earn about 50% more than those without them. We also know AI will be disruptive, leaving many people unsure which skills matter most or where to start. And while OpenAI can’t eliminate that disruption, we can help people everywhere prepare to navigate it successfully.

Last September, we laid out our vision for expanding economic opportunity⁠ through the new OpenAI Certifications and the OpenAI Jobs Platform initiatives. Now, we’re taking the next step by launching a pair of new courses that will provide practical AI skills: AI Foundations, launching in ChatGPT through pilot programs with a group of leading employers and public-service partners, and ChatGPT Foundations for Teachers, available today in Coursera⁠.

AI Foundations focuses on providing workers with hands-on, real-world training on how to use  today’s AI tools, while the course for teachers helps educators build AI expertise and put it to work in the classroom. With the launch of these courses, we’re accelerating our push to certify 10 million Americans by 2030.

AI is a powerful productivity tool that can help people do more, learn faster, and unlock new kinds of work. But those gains only materialize when people have the skills to use the technology and when employers can find workers who know how to apply it. Our goal is to enable them to do so.

AI Foundations 

Our starting point is the AI Foundations course, which is designed to help users learn core, practical AI skills that apply across roles and industries. For the first time, a full learning experience is available directly inside ChatGPT, where learners can practice real tasks, receive feedback in context, and reflect on their work in a single environment. ChatGPT acts as the tutor, the practice space, and the feedback loop. 

As people complete AI Foundations, they’ll earn a badge verifying that they have job-ready AI skills. With additional courses and a hands-on project, they’ll build toward full OpenAI Certification. It’s a broader, more comprehensive credential that shows those skills in real-world settings and helps people grow in their current roles or move into new ones.

AI Foundations is launching through pilot programs with leading employers and public-sector partners, including Walmart, John Deere, Lowe’s, Boston Consulting Group, Russell Reynolds Associates, Upwork, Elevance Health, Accenture, the Office of the Governor of Delaware, and Choose New Jersey⁠. 

Coursera, ETS, and Credly by Pearson will help ensure our courses and certifications meet high standards for learning design, psychometric rigor, and real-world impact, allowing learners to earn high-value and portable evidence of their skill development. We’ll work with our initial partners over the next couple of months to learn more about what worked well and what could be improved, and then to expand access to the course so more people can develop – and show potential employers—their new AI skills.  

As more young people enter a workforce increasingly shaped by AI, we’re giving college students in the ChatGPT Lab early access to AI Foundations. We are also piloting a new course with Arizona State University and the California State University system staff, faculty, and students to create pathways for students to hone their AI skills and showcase them to employers as they enter the job market. 

ChatGPT Foundations for Teachers

Alongside AI Foundations, we’re also launching a ChatGPT Foundations for Teachers⁠ course. Three in five⁠ teachers already use an AI tool, with many relying on it to save time, personalize classroom materials and lesson plans while also providing better support to their students. Teachers also play a central role in helping students and families learn how to use AI tools effectively, confidently, and responsibly.

Built specifically for K-12 teachers, the new course introduces the essentials of how ChatGPT works, how to navigate and personalize the tool, and how to apply it to real classroom and administrative tasks. It will initially be available on Coursera, and we’re working to bring this experience directly into ChatGPT and ChatGPT for Teachers in early 2026 to create the same hands-on, practical learning environment. More teacher-focused certifications will follow.

ChatGPT Foundations for Teachers is part of our effort to help educators use AI and fully harness its potential. It builds on our ChatGPT for Teachers⁠ effort to make a custom version of ChatGPT free to educators, our partnership with the American Federation of Teachers⁠ to equip 400,000 K-12 educators with practical AI skills, and our broader work to introduce new tools that are responsive to academic needs, like study mode⁠. It also reflects our belief that AI is reshaping nearly every industry and teachers will play an essential role in helping students learn to use the technology.

Together, these two programs connect learning, certification, and real economic opportunity in one clear journey, laying the foundation for our upcoming OpenAI Jobs Platform. We’re excited to continue our collaboration with Indeed to help ensure these efforts expand opportunity for all. We’re also introducing a new partnership with Upwork, which will play a key role in our broader effort to train people in AI, make it easier for businesses to hire people with the specific skills they need, and ensure that technical expertise translates into new economic possibilities for millions of people everywhere. 

We’re building fast, learning with partners, and expanding carefully—and we’re just getting started.

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